Paul Krugman: Everything Is Political
...eating people’s brains.” Penguin Random House In this hefty collection of essays that spans the last few decades, Krugman weighs in on everything from social security to his teaching philosophy...
Why Your Zodiac Sign Is Probably Wrong
I was born a Capricorn (please don’t judge me), but the Sun was in the middle of Sagittarius when I was born. As a professor emeritus of astronomy, I am...
How Conservation Is Shaped by Settler Colonialism
When we talk about conservation land, we usually mean areas kept in a pristine, natural state, from which people are barred from living. But environmental philosopher Yogi Hale Hendlin argues...
Selling Hedonism in Postwar America
...Malherek argues that it’s no coincidence that these two, as well as a number of other leaders in this movement, were Europeans, steeped in Continental philosophy and aesthetics. Landor focused...
“To Reach the Pure Realm of the Imaginary:” A Conversation with Cixin Liu
...focus on my philosophical influences. Philosophy has a profound impact on me. That’s because, in my view, if we compare science and philosophy, which one is closer to science fiction?...
3 Women Philosophers of the Enlightenment
“This world has always belonged to males,” Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her 1949 book The Second Sex. The same, sadly, may be said of the canon of Western philosophy...
Robert Brandom, a Philosopher’s Philosopher
...for a reunion between the main branches of contemporary philosophy. Brandom refuses to pick between the conventionally accepted canon of analytic and continental philosophy, instead explicitly reading them together. Brandom...
Editors’ Picks: What We’re Reading
...consumerism and online dating, saying that “[r]isk and adventure must be reinvented against safety and comfort.” Badiou tackled the other “ultimate subject” of philosophy—namely, death—in an earlier article for the...
Wait, Why Are the Parthenon Marbles in London?
...Yet as environmental philosophy scholar Karin Edvardsson Björnberg notes in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, “the existence of such a firman has been questioned, and few (if any) scholars are...
Who Really Discovered How the Heart Works?
...minds. He wrote about astronomy, legal theory, philosophy, sociology, and medicine, a subject on which he wrote commentaries and criticisms prodigiously. Published in 1242, when al-Nafis was only 29 years...